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[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Android hate not tolerated. Android can delete system apps, if you aee root. On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 22 points 4 months ago

Considering how difficult it still can be to get root on Android, I understand the shade, though.

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

It requires an unlocked bootloader and an installed recovery

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks. I'm aware of that..

[-] superkret@feddit.org 20 points 4 months ago

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

Wrong. You can install Flatpak apps as a user, which are very similar to apps on Android.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can install ~~an~~ and uninstall Flatpak applications in Linux as normal user.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

That's not true at all. You generally can't use your distribution's package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure'd it properly make install will put it under your home.

Standard Linux distributions don't place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you'll need to sort that out.

[-] gixx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I'm running NixOS and my entire desktop environment is installed and managed without root.

[-] ___ 1 points 4 months ago

Or by connecting an Android phone to a computer, enabling USB debugging, launching a terminal and typing

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.package.name.of.app

No root needed!

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

That's not exactly a safe, recommended or foolproof way. Adb carries a lot of risks

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